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This Week in Washington: Congress passes six appropriations bills including skinny health package; House Ways and Means Committee reports bill to block CMS nursing home minimum staffing...

This Week in Washington: House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health holds hearing on a range of legislation concerning public health programs, patient wellbeing and...

This Week in Washington: CMS releases 2025 MA and Part D proposed payment Advance Notice; CMS sends first fair drug price offers to Drug Price Negotiation Program companies; SAMHSA...

Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 12  (December 2023) Although the National Science Foundation (NSF) allowed more than half the costs questioned by auditors for its Office of...

 

House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup announced an investigation into whether an unlicensed lab in Reedley, California, owned by Prestige Biotech, a Chinese company, posed a threat to public health for allegedly conducting dangerous research related to COVID-19.

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A government watchdog group called out federal authorities for lax oversight of the riskiest scientific research known as gain of function, which many in the US believe is what caused the pandemic.

Incoming Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer announced the launch of the committee’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19.

Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional...